Your Prescription for a
Higher Performing Organization

Guiding Purpose-Driven Organizations to Improved Performance

Our team has over 75 years of combined industry experience

Strategy Execution

Are you facing increased scrutiny from your stakeholders? Are you chasing some of the same goals you had last year? Is the day-to-day consuming your capacity to achieve strategic goals? Does the path you’re on lack enough alignment & buy-in by the team?

Team Effectiveness

Are you suffering from Low Accountability, Silos, Politics, or Lack of Alignment?

Operational Excellence

Is inconsistency hurting performance? Are quality issues hurting your brand? Have you grown, but work is still being performed in older ways?

Are you seeking a higher performing organization?

The quest for higher performance whispers a fundamental truth: the same actions produce the same results. So the question is not IF you’ll improve, but WHAT and HOW.

To evolve, you must choose to:

The path, though seemingly obvious and straightforward, is often traveled poorly.

The journey you embark on will demand focus, cohesive leadership, hard choices, and disciplined action… But not just any action. The journey will be laden with pot-holes, the same ones that most leaders before you have fallen into.

Studies indicate that between 70% to 90% of significant change initiatives fail to produce the desired outcomes.

What is Inertia?

Because you and your teams are talented, and experienced, and know your industry, you have naturally created inertia. This is not limited to individual contributor staff either. Managers of all levels have learned the same beliefs and practices which have generally led to the same mistaken paths followed.

Whether by design, or default, people have a way. And we know how people get stuck in their ways.

Inertia is the property where objects remains at rest or in uniform motion in the same direction unless acted upon by some external force. Inertia is a force of its own; it opposes any force that would cause a change.

Ask Yourself

HOW DO WE DO BETTER or DO DIFFERENT, when what we know is what we do, and how we do it, today
HOW DO WE BE BETTER or BE DIFFERENT, when we are busy being who we are today?

Overcoming inertia requires an external force be applied.

How much spare capacity do you have sitting around waiting to help you do and be better?
You and your teams, were all hired because you know your industry and everyone is good at what they do. How many were hired because they are agents of change, specializing in process improvement, effective teamwork, and strategy execution

Characteristics of High Performing Orgs

1. They are Focused.

Clarity of Focus: The entire organization is clear on where they are, where they’re going, how they’re going to get there.

Narrow Focus: They maintain focused attention on the most important things. They say “no” to good ideas every day in order to keep their available energy on what’s most important.

2. They have A "Way" for… Everything they do.

They have engineered standard things to be automatic, barely requiring their attention.
Like a world-class athlete, they’ve honed their skills and processes, resulting in a sort of muscle memory.
Because no energy is wasted, they have more time & energy to devote on the strategic, the new, the improved.

3. They are culturally "Healthy".

With ubiquitous clarity of purpose and core values, teams are highly aligned on, and committed to, the shared results of the organization.
Collaboration, accountability, and teamwork thrive
There is a noticeable absence of politics and unproductive behaviors
Managers and associates have clarity of direction, low levels of confusion, and everyone knows their role on the journey
There is high retention and low turnover amongst the (right) people.

4. They are Continuously Improving

They are on a Journey; destinations are celebrated, but are only interim
They are constantly Pushing on the Flywheel
They are mobilized for change; they embrace change and have become experts at managing it.
Every solution is built for subsequent change.

5. They are Disciplined.

“It <greatness> is about getting disciplined people who engage in disciplined thought and who then take disciplined action.” – Jim Collins in Good to Great

They architect and they engineer
They measure what matters
They are effective at making decisions, communicating decisions, and reinforcing decisions
They take appropriate levels of risk; leveraging cycles of feedback and learning
They are agile; knowing what to continue, what to stop, and what to start

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

How can Inertia Rx Help?

Our Client Partners have spent entire careers as agents of change; helping leaders like yourself break the hold of inertia and achieve higher performance. We are specialists in coaching team dynamics, in the effective execution of strategy, and in optimizing process.

Throughout our careers, we have witnessed successes and failures as organizations attempt to create significant change. The difficult lessons we’ve learned do not have to be experienced by you. Instead of taking difficult lessons into your next job, why not stand on the shoulders of those that have come before you and leverage our knowledge and experience to drive success at your current job.

Schedule a call to learn how you can ignite change and accelerate your journey to higher performance.